Sparks shooting leaves one dead

By News Room

One man has been killed and a woman hurt in a shooting at a home in northeast Sparks. Police responded to reports of shots fired about 6:45 p.m. Tuesday at a home on Burnside Drive just west of Sparks Boulevard and north of East Prater Way. Officers found a woman with a gunshot wound in the front yard. She was taken to Reno hospital where condition is unknown. Police say a man confronted the woman and a friend with a gun in the driveway when they arrived to retrieve her belongings at the residence.